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Can one triumph over death if death always comes unexpectedly? It is early to die no matter how old you are, isn’t it? Autumn. An old remote village in Belorussia. An elderly man is starting to objectify his fight...
16 Scetches of Dialogues
At the beginning of the new millennium, Jan Jedlička received artistic support from the Swiss insurance company Swiss Re, for which he made the short film Air (2001) and also a portrait of its conference centre, the…
17th of August
The first prison in Russia for those sentenced to life terms. A single cell. "Prisoner Boris Bezotechestvo. Life sentence. Article 102. Triple murder." Communing with a God who is indifferent to his fate. He prays,…
1 + 8
The first thing to stand out about this film is its remarkable formal decency. Although even the title makes one expect mathematical approach, the fact is that Cynthia Madansky and Angelika Brudniak’s documentary…
18 kg
Kasisi, an orphanage 40 km away from Zambia’s capital, takes in starving and ill children, often on the verge of death, whom nobody wants. For many of them, the orphanage run by Polish missionariesis is the last resort.…
1914: A War of Images
World War I was the battlefield for the first propaganda war in history. The recently invented and very popular medium of film was used by all military parties to create deception and manipulate public opinion.…
1968: Betrayal
Betrayal - the second part of the series devoted to the Prague Spring - charts the fundamental events which took place from 1968 to 1969. After the leaders of the Czechoslovak Communist Party returned from Moscow, the…
1968: Hope
The first part of a documentary series returns to the Prague Spring of 1968 - to the period of so-called socialism with a human face in which there was a glimmer of hope that society as a whole would fully recover. The…
1973
Scenes of daily life on the banks of the Danube in Serbia; little or nothing seems to happen for these men stranded at the port along with the boats. Guided by a protagonist who is at the same time endearing yet a…
1989
Creative documentary drama about the collapse of the Iron Curtain. Miklós Neméth, becomes Hungary’s new prime minister to save the country’s economy.